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Overture

Every work whose title names this form (also counted: ouverture).

Works
584
Airings
7574

Most-aired works

#WorkComposerAirings
1 Hebrides - overture (Op.26) Felix Mendelssohn 141
2 Overture from Suite no 1 in C major, BWV.1066 Johann Sebastian Bach 131
3 Coriolan Overture, Op 62 Ludwig van Beethoven 123
4 Overture in the Italian Style, D.590 Franz Schubert 115
5 Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture Pyotr Tchaikovsky 103
6 Overture from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K.620 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 100
7 Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music) Ralph Vaughan Williams 99
8 Academic Festival Overture Johannes Brahms 98
9 Overture from Ruslan i Lyudmila Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka 97
10 Beatrice et Benedict (Overture) Hector Berlioz 88
11 La Forza del Destino, Overture Giuseppe Verdi 81
12 Ruy Blas (overture), Op 95 Felix Mendelssohn 78
13 Overture (Le Nozze di Figaro, K492) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 78
14 Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Otto Nicolai 69
15 Manfred (Overture to the Incidental Music, Op 115) Robert Schumann 69
16 Egmont Overture, Op 84 Ludwig van Beethoven 67
17 Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt - Overture, Op 27 Felix Mendelssohn 67
18 Lemminkainen Overture Väinö Haapalainen 65
19 Don Giovanni K 527 (Overture) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 65
20 Carnival Overture, Op 92 Antonín Dvořák 64
21 Tragic Overture in D minor (Op.81) (1881) Johannes Brahms 63
22 Festive Overture Dmitry Shostakovich 63
23 The Bartered Bride - overture Bedrich Smetana 63
24 Nabucco (Overture) Giuseppe Verdi 62
25 Overture to Maskarade (FS.39) Carl Nielsen 60
26 Rosamunde, D.644 (Overture) Franz Schubert 60
27 In Autumn - overture, Op 11 Edvard Grieg 53
28 Prince Igor (Overture) Alexander Borodin 52
29 Rienzi Overture Richard Wagner 52
30 In the south (Alassio) - overture, Op 50 Edward Elgar 50
31 Overture to La Gazza Ladra [The Thieving Magpie] Gioachino Rossini 49
32 Overture (William Tell) Gioachino Rossini 49
33 Overture in C minor, 'Gijsbrecht van Aemstel', Op 3 Johannes Verhulst 49
34 Overture, L'Isola disabitata Joseph Haydn 48
35 Der Freischutz (Overture) Carl Maria von Weber 48
36 Les Franc-juges Op 3 (Overture) Hector Berlioz 47
37 The Light Cavalry - overture Franz von Suppé 45
38 Johannesburg Festival Overture William Walton 44
39 Concert Overture in C minor Jan van Gilse 43
40 Die schone Melusine [The Fair Melusine] - overture Op 32 Felix Mendelssohn 42
41 Overture from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) Gioachino Rossini 42
42 In Nature's Realm (Overture) Antonín Dvořák 41
43 Keltic Overture, Op 28 John Foulds 41
44 Concert Overture, Op 11 'Fruhlingsgewalt' Johan Wagenaar 40
45 Souvenir d'une nuit d'ete a Madrid, 'Spanish overture no 2' Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka 39
46 Acis and Galatea, K 566 (Overture and prelude to act II) George Frideric Handel 39
47 Overture: Nummisuutarit (The Cobblers on the Heath) Uuno Klami 39
48 Bajka [The fairy tale] - concert overture Stanislaw Moniuszko 39
49 Overture: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) Richard Wagner 39
50 Los Esclavos Felices (Overture) Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga 38